Philip C. Jessup papers, 1574-1983 (bulk 1925-1983).
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 120,000 items; 394 containers plus 1 classified and 2 oversize; 157.6 linear feetSubject(s): - Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971 -- Correspondence
- Baxter, Richard, 1921-1980 -- Correspondence
- Bingham, Jonathan B. -- Correspondence
- Bishop, William W. (William Warner), 1906-1987 -- Correspondence
- Borchard, Edwin, 1884-1951 -- Correspondence
- Bowles, Chester, 1901-1986 -- Correspondence
- Brinton, Jasper Yeates, 1878- -- Correspondence
- Bundy, William P., 1917-2000 -- Correspondence
- Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947 -- Correspondence
- Case, Everett Needham -- Correspondence
- Castberg, Frede, 1893-1977 -- Correspondence
- Chacko, Chirakaikaran Joseph, 1899- -- Correspondence
- Cordier, Andrew W. (Andrew Wellington), 1901-1975 -- Correspondence
- Coudert, Frederic René, 1898-1972 -- Correspondence
- Cranston, Alan, 1914-2000 -- Correspondence
- Déak, Francis, 1898-1972 -- Correspondence
- Dillard, Hardy Cross, 1902-1982 -- Correspondence
- Dulles, Allen, 1893-1969 -- Correspondence
- Estabrook, Robert H. -- Correspondence
- Finch, George Augustus, 1884-1957 -- Correspondence
- Fitzmaurice, Gerald, Sir, 1901-1982 -- Correspondence
- Friedman, Wolfgang Gaston, 1907-1972 -- Correspondence
- Gardner, Richard N. -- Correspondence
- Gros, André, 1908-2003 -- Correspondence
- Gross, Leo, 1903-1990 -- Correspondence
- Guggenheim, Paul, 1899-1977 -- Correspondence
- Hackworth, Green Haywood, 1883-1973 -- Correspondence
- Hambro, Edvard Isak, 1911-1977 -- Correspondence
- Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986 -- Correspondence
- Hoyt, Edwin C. (Edwin Chase), 1916-2007 -- Correspondence
- Hudson, Manley O. (Manley Ottmer), 1886-1960 -- Correspondence
- Hyde, James Nevins, 1909-1996 -- Correspondence
- Kennan, George F. (George Frost), 1904-2005 -- Correspondence
- Khan, Muhammed Zafrulla, Sir, 1893- -- Correspondence
- Kleffens, Eelco Nicolaas van, 1894-1983 -- Correspondence
- Kuehl, Warren F., 1924- -- Correspondence
- Lauterpacht, Hersch, 1897-1960 -- Correspondence
- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 1906-2001 -- Correspondence
- Marcy, Carl, 1913-1990 -- Correspondence
- Mbanefo, Louis, Sir -- Correspondence
- McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957
- McNair, Arnold Duncan McNair, Baron, 1885-1975 -- Correspondence
- Moore, John Bassett, 1860-1947 -- Correspondence
- Pollak, Louis H. -- Correspondence
- Rhyne, Charles S., 1912-2003 -- Correspondence
- Richardson, Elliot L., 1920-1999 -- Correspondence
- Rogers, Lindsay, 1891-1970 -- Correspondence
- Root, Elihu, 1845-1937
- Rusk, Dean, 1909-1994 -- Correspondence
- Schwebel, Stephen M. (Stephen Myron), 1929- -- Correspondence
- Shotwell, James T., 1874-1965 -- Correspondence
- Sloane, Blaine -- Correspondence
- Smedley, Frederic C. -- Correspondence
- Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 -- Correspondence
- Warren, Earl, 1891-1974 -- Correspondence
- Webster, Bethuel M. (Bethuel Matthew), 1900-1989 -- Correspondence
- Wriston, Henry M. (Henry Merritt), 1889-1978 -- Correspondence
- Yost, Charles Woodruff -- Correspondence
- American Friends Service Committee
- American Society of International Law
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Columbia University. -- Faculty
- Democratic Party (U.S.)
- Institute of Pacific Relations
- International Court of Justice
- United Nations
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
- United States. Children's Bureau
- United States. Department of State
- Diplomacy
- Human rights
- International law
- International relations
- Law -- Study and teaching -- Africa
- Law -- Study and teaching -- Asia
- Law -- Study and teaching -- Middle East
- Law -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- New York
- Loyalty oaths
- National security -- United States
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- France
- World War, 1914-1918 -- South Carolina -- Spartanburg
- Africa -- Description and travel
- Asia -- Description and travel
- Latin America -- Description and travel
- Middle East -- Description and travel
- Spartanburg (S.C.) -- History
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Vietnam
- United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- Vietnam -- Foreign relations -- United States
- Diplomats
- Educators
- Jurists
Open to research.
Classified, in part.
Family and general correspondence, reports and memoranda, speeches and writings, subject files, legal papers, newspaper clippings and other papers pertaining chiefly to Jessup's work with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Institute of Pacific Relations, U.S. Dept. of State, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, and International Court of Justice. Includes material relating to his World War I service in Spartanburg, S.C., and in France; teaching at Columbia University; charges made against him by Senator Joseph McCarthy and postwar loyalty and security investigations; his biography of Elihu Root; his travels in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East to promote legal education; the Democratic Party and national politics; American policy in Vietnam; American Society of International Law; and to diplomacy, foreign affairs, human rights, and international law in general. Includes papers of his wife, Lois Walcott Kellogg Jessup, relating to her work for the American Friends Service Committee, U.S. Children's Bureau, and United Nations, her travels to Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, and to her writings.
Correspondents include Dean Acheson, Richard Baxter, Jonathan B. Bingham, William W. Bishop, Edwin Montefiore Borchard, Chester Bowles, Jasper Yeates Brinton, William P. Bundy, Nicholas Murray Butler, Everett Needham Case, Frede Castberg, Chirakaikaran Joseph Chacko, Andrew W. Cordier, Frederic René Coudert, Alan MacGregor Cranston, Francis Deák, Hardy Cross Dillard, Allen Welsh Dulles, Robert H. Estabrook, George Augustus Finch, Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice, Wolfgang Gaston Friedman, Richard N. Gardner, André Gros, Leo Gross, Paul Guggenheim, Green Haywood Hackworth, Edvard Isak Hambro, W. Averell Harriman, Edwin C. Hoyt, Manley Ottmer Hudson, James Nevins Hyde, George Frost Kennan, Sir Muhammed Zafrulla Khan, Eelco Nicholaas van Kleffens, Warren F. Kuehl, Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Carl Milton Marcy, Sir Louis Mbanefo, Lord Arnold Duncan McNair, John Bassett Moore, Louis H. Pollak, Charles S. Rhyne, Elliot L. Richardson, Lindsay Rogers, Elihu Root, Dean Rusk, Stephen M. Schwebel, James T. Shotwell, Blaine Sloane, Frederic C. Smedley, Harry S. Truman, Earl Warren, Bethuel Matthew Webster, Henry Merritt Wriston, and Charles Woodruff Yost.
Most photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Sheet music transferred to Library of Congress Music Division.
Sound recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
Jurist, diplomat, and educator. Died 1986.
Collection material in English.
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